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Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the Farm Security Administration. Packing finished print strips for one unit, keyed by code according to the dummy, for future assembly

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Boy probably about 13 years old, tying strips which he has taken away from the planer. Schultze Waltum Co., Planing Mill. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Boy probably about 13 years old, tying strips which he has taken away ...

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These were the youngest white boys (there were several younger negroes) that I could find working in the Parker Heading Co. Lumber Yards, Poplar Bluff, Mo. (Sometimes called the Great Western Lumber Co.) I went through the buildings and yards. Smallest white boy is Frank Childers, Front St., Poplar Bluff. He and the other small boys help trim and carry strips to make barrel headings. Location: Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

These were the youngest white boys (there were several younger negroes...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a child labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the visual unit of the Farm Security Adnministration. Packing finished print strips for one unit, keyed by code according to the dummy, for future assembly

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, to be in...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boy probably about 13 years old, tying strips which he has taken away from the planer. Schultze Waltum Co., Planing Mill. Location: Evansville, Indiana.

Boy probably about 13 years old, tying strips which he has taken away ...

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Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Assembling print strips in the laboratory to check matching edges and tones

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Dearborn, Michigan. Workers in the River Rouge Ford plant bending metal strips to form window frames for automobiles

Dearborn, Michigan. Workers in the River Rouge Ford plant bending meta...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Michigan, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The wing is a North American B-25 is prepared for painting on the "California Assembly Line." The girl is taping down strips of paper to protect areas not to be painted

The wing is a North American B-25 is prepared for painting on the "Cal...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Side strips are nailed over the wire sceen to hold the edges down tightly. A completed window screen. Screening demonstration. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland

Side strips are nailed over the wire sceen to hold the edges down tigh...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Strong, light plywood for our fighting planes. An exact and even spread of urea glue is applied by machine to strips of wood veneer to permit attachment to lumbercore panels in a Midwest plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Plywood for aircraft and boats. Strong, light plywood for ...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. After losing their cores and being sand-blasted, castings go to the cleaning floor. This workman was using a pneumatic chipping hammer which with rapid-fire, chisel-like strokes trims rough edges and cuts off the uneven, jagged strips where the two halves of the mold join. Location: a large Midwest machine tool plant

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. After losing their ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar venee...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Loading citrus fruits in R.R. car, crates being fastened together with strips. Lamanda Park, Calif.

Loading citrus fruits in R.R. car, crates being fastened together with...

Stereograph showing a man packing crates of lemons into a railroad car. J262148 U.S. Copyright Office. From the series: The California Missions and the State of California. Lemons 22. No. (56). Copyright by Phi... More

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are billets of stainless steel, ready to through the hot rolling mills to be pressed into strips. The chipping and grinding on the surfaces of these billets is designed to remove all contamination and defects, so that the steel may meet the high quality requirements of being able to resist corrosion

Steel manufacture, Allegheny-Ludlum. No lumberyard this! These are bil...

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New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, designed by the Farm Security Administration, to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, in the shop of a contractor. Carpenter working underneath the frames bolting them together. Print strips were mounted across sections and later sections were cut apart and unbolted for installation

New York, New York. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural, desig...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a car, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Assembling print strips in the laboratory to check matching edges and tones

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Silverware plant. Coating a belt with emory strips, this worker prepares a machine for its normal job. However, instead of putting a finish on fine tableware, (emory is a high-action abrasive) it will be used on delicate surgical instruments which are being manufactured here for the U.S. Army Medical Corps. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Coating a belt with emory strips, this w...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar veneer is inspected before being made into panels for combat planes. These rotary-cut strips are carefully checked for quality and thickness in a big Midwest veneer plant. Louisville, Kentucky

Production. Veneer for aircraft and other war essentials. Poplar venee...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Making Leather Strips to Demonstrate Braiding

Making Leather Strips to Demonstrate Braiding

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Shed made of slabs and roofed with slabs, dirt and bark strips. Pie Town, New Mexico

Shed made of slabs and roofed with slabs, dirt and bark strips. Pie To...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on both surfaces which are to be fastened together, these workers assemble individual pattern pieces into strips or "gores" for barrage balloons being made for army balloon corps. By an ingenious arrangement of folds, strips nearly a hundred feet long can be handled by each worker on the table in front of him. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory worker, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions. show less

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes from the rolls, is usually in strips too long for convenient handling. Here motor-driven shears cut the strip to shorter lengths. At the same time the metal is carefully inspected for surface defects. Chase Brass and Copper Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. Brass or copper, as it comes ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contraction, like paper and other sheet materials made from cellulose, films expand as they take up moisture and contract as they lose it, and the extent of the change is different in the two directions of them. This may cause some distortion of the image, and therefore is of particular importance where the image must be true to scale, such as in aerial photography. C.O. Pope is shown with a type of expansiveity tester used and which was designed by the Bureau of Standards. Long strips of film are suspended under constant tension in the [cabinet?] in which the humidity is varied by means of [...] solutions. The change in length is indicated [...continuously?] on a scale by means of an optical-level arrangement, 7/8/38

Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contra...

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Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Cutting of logs on lathe into strips

Arab factories & gen[eral] improvements in Nablus. Match factory. Cutt...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a factory, plant, manufacture, assembly line, industrial facility, early 20th-century industrial architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Cutting metal reinforcement strips to fit the screen door joints. Screening demonstration. Saint Mary's County, Ridge, Maryland

Cutting metal reinforcement strips to fit the screen door joints. Scre...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Negro steelworker. This skilled Negro worker is operating a wire-drawing machine which draws steel strips through a die into wire in a large East Coast steel mill. Bethlehem Fairfield Steel

Negro steelworker. This skilled Negro worker is operating a wire-drawi...

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Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler control building. Windows on three sides and overlook terrace adjoining offer complete view of plant and surroundings. Fourth wall used for description of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) program. Floor: gray-brown terrazo, divided into large squares by white metal strips. Wainscot, window sills, trim around doorway and curb at footlights brownish-red precast terrazo. Walls burlap covered, painted subdued tan. Windows aluminum. Ceiling and upper part of walls, plaster painted warm gray with warm off-white reflecting circles and cove across end (ceiling acoustic plaster). Lighting indirect. Lights in cove across end of room also throw downward, directed by lenses toward wall display and shielded by aluminum louvers. Behind curb inclined contol lens footlights and louver (aluminum) shielding air exhaust. Supply through ceiling grilles which border ceiling on two sides. Deep trim around doorway intended as shield while passing footlights. Display in gray, black and tan, keyed with general color scheme. Guard's desk of natural oak and ebomized birch, with raised ledge for visitor's registration

Wheeler dam and powerhouse. Visitors' reception room in Wheeler contro...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. These men are pushing a factory platform truckload of coiled brass and copper strips to the shipping platform of the mill. Chase Copper and Brass Company, Euclid, Ohio

Conversion. Copper and brass processing. These men are pushing a facto...

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Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Punching pen nibs out of flat strips of gold

Sheaffer fountain pen factory, Ft. Madison, Iowa. Punching pen nibs ou...

Public domain photograph of 1940s-1950s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rags. Collection and processing. Roofing being wound into rolls at a Maryland plant. Rags and waste paper are used extensively in the manufacture of this material. The strips on the floor are trimmings which are left after the edges of the roll have been made even

Rags. Collection and processing. Roofing being wound into rolls at a M...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Flag flying above House of Rep. tore into strips and braided perfectly by wind storm, Jan. 16, 1917

Flag flying above House of Rep. tore into strips and braided perfectly...

A group of men standing next to each other in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A brief cloudburst buries a wagon wheel to the axle as water erosion strips barren grazing land. On the Idaho land use project

A brief cloudburst buries a wagon wheel to the axle as water erosion s...

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A girl worker at Vultee's Downey, California plant stacking dural strips that will go into modern warplanes. At the Downey plant is made the BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainer--a fast, sturdy ship powered by a Pratt and Whitney Wasp engine

Production. BT-13A ("Valiant") basic trainers. A girl worker at Vultee...

Public domain photograph of California in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Pendulum or oscillating clock mechanisms, showing escapement mechanism, curved metal strips to check swing of pendulum, and clock with pendulum and weights]

[Pendulum or oscillating clock mechanisms, showing escapement mechanis...

Illus. in: Horologium oscillatorium / Christiaan Huygens. Parisiis : Apud F. Muguet, 1673. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1987, p. 272.

Wind storm, Jan. 16, 1917, tore flag into small strips and braided them

Wind storm, Jan. 16, 1917, tore flag into small strips and braided the...

Two men holding a large american flag in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man building a house, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man building a house, Great Depression. F...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pier plant. Placing perforated steel reinforcing strips in pier forms. They will project top and bottom. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Pier plant. Placing perforated steel reinforcing strips in pier forms....

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Making books of comic strips. Grade school, San Augustine, Texas

Making books of comic strips. Grade school, San Augustine, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain American History photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Wood workers, too, have their place in building trucks for the U.S. Army. These men are assembling brackets and metal strips to the wood bows that support a ridge pole which extends the entire length of the body and gives added strength and support to the bows

Army truck manufacture (Dodge). Wood workers, too, have their place in...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Door in place. Applying closing strips. Demonstration of home screen door construction, Saint Mary's County, Ridge, Maryland

Door in place. Applying closing strips. Demonstration of home screen d...

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Virginia Ludwig goes to work on a punch press, stamping out discs from steel strips. Her well-fitting uniform is devoid of unnecessary pleats, trimmings, doodads--is just right for the job

Virginia Ludwig goes to work on a punch press, stamping out discs from...

Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s US industrial development, Second World War, US war production, indusry, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). The enlarger used for making the print strips

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of an office worker, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Bridges. Another bridge on the Norris freeway, designed as a continuous concrete structure, cantilevered past the abutments. The simplicity of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) bridges contrasts with considerable detail and ornamentation on the standard types of most state highway departments. Photograph illustrates unspoiled rural character of surroundings which was attained by purchase of broad strips of land either side of road and, further contracts with abutting land owners giving them right to cultivate TVA-owned strip in exchange for prohibiting signboards on their own property

Bridges. Another bridge on the Norris freeway, designed as a continuou...

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Screen door stock assembled and held together with corrugated fasteners. Metal reinforcement strips are being nailed at corner joints on the outside of the frame. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland. Screening demonstration

Screen door stock assembled and held together with corrugated fastener...

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Bridges. Another bridge on the Norris freeway, designed as a continuous concrete structure, cantilevered past the abutments. The simplicity of TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) bridges contrasts with considerable detail and ornamentation on the standard types of most state highway departments. Photograph illustrates unspoiled rural character of surroundings which was attained by purchase of broad strips of land either side of road and, further contracts with abutting land owners giving them right to cultivate TVA-owned strip in exchange for prohibiting signboards on their own property

Bridges. Another bridge on the Norris freeway, designed as a continuou...

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Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change the spelling of their names, from time to time. To forestall the difficulties which would ensue when Baer subsequently spelled his name Bear, the Social Security Board Records Office has set up several varieties of indexes for reference and to insure accuracy. One of these is the alphabetic code index. This is printed on flexible strips, each just wide enough for one line of type. They are printed automatically from the employee master card. The strips are in partially perforated rolls when they first are printed, as shown in the above photograph taken in the Records Office. The perforations allow strips to be separated at any point so that, for example, Abraham Abel's name may be inserted in proper alphabetic sequence between Aaron Abel and Adam Abel

Baltimore, MD. Strange as it may seem, many persons misspell or change...

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Concrete slab for sanitary privy. The stool at the left bolts on to the collar. The building is fastened to metal strips at corners. Minnesota

Concrete slab for sanitary privy. The stool at the left bolts on to th...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cutting strips of colored paper to use in decorating float, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana

Cutting strips of colored paper to use in decorating float, National R...

Public domain photograph of Louisiana in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on both surfaces which are to be fastened together, these workers assemble individual pattern pieces into strips or "gores" for barrage balloons being made for army balloon corps. By an ingenious arrangement of folds, strips nearly a hundred feet long can be handled by each worker on the table in front of him. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Seamers at work. Putting rubber cement on...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plant. Men and women workmen putting finishing touches on turrets. All the transparent lucite and metal reinforcement strips used in these turrets were imported under the lend lease program

Melbourne, Australia. Beaufort torpedo bomber turret sub-assembly plan...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a woman working, women labor, 1940s, economic conditions, home front, world war two, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Southeast Missour Farms Project. House erection. Shop-assembled porch floor being fastened into place. Note that trim and batten strips are already in place on the house

Southeast Missour Farms Project. House erection. Shop-assembled porch...

Public domain photograph of a shop, shopping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

[Girl painting strips with glue to assemble cigar boxes]

[Girl painting strips with glue to assemble cigar boxes]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Barrage balloon manufacture. Rubber tailor shop. Using a tailor's electric cutter--a speedup suggestion from one of the young workers--these workers slice through several thicknesses of rubber fabric as they cut the patterns for the strips and "gores" for making barrage balloons. Marked, cut, assembled and seamed on long tables, the strips are taken from the tables to the assembly floor to be fashioned into a gigantic gas balloon for the protection of our cities. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Rubber tailor shop. Using a tailor's elec...

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Barrage balloon manufacture. Rubber tailor shop. Using a tailor's electric cutter--a speedup suggestion from one of the young workers--these workers slice through several thicknesses of rubber fabric as they cut the patterns for the strips and "gores" for making barrage balloons. Marked, cut, assembled and seamed on long tables, the strips are taken from the tables to the assembly floor to be fashioned into a gigantic gas balloon for the protection of our cities. General Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

Barrage balloon manufacture. Rubber tailor shop. Using a tailor's elec...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Drying print strips in the corridor

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a worker, construction, carpenter, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be installed in the Grand Central terminal, New York, in the photographic laboratory of the FSA (Farm Security Administration). Assembling print strips in the laboratory to check matching edges and tones

Washington, D.C. Preparing the defense bond sales photomural to be ins...

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Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington, D.C., like those in most other sections of the country, have revised their curricula to fit the pupils for fuller participation in the war effort. They have gone all-out for the Program of Civilian Defense and at the Margaret Murray Washington Vocational School, courses in home-making and the preservation of foods are now taught all young women. Photo shows Miss Valeria Wingfield giving carrots the "cold dip" preparatory to removing the skin, cutting into strips and packing into sterilized jars for cooking

Washington public schools go to war. The public schools of Washington,...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.